(Dear Lord Jesus, guide me and give me insight as I read and study Your word...)
(Deuteronomy 17:14-20) “When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’ 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman. 16 Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’ 17 He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.
18 “Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. 19 It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.
TODAY'S THOUGHTS AND MEDITATION:
Jesus is and has always been meant to be Israel's King. They rejected Him when He came to earth in flesh the first time. But as prophesied, Israel will see the signs of Jesus' second coming during the Tribulation, and as a nation their hearts will turn to Him for salvation - and will yearn for Him to be their King. Jesus will then set up the Millennial kingdom and all of Israel's covenants will be fulfilled (they will have in full their promised land, seed and blessings), because they will have their perfect King sitting on the throne.
Israel not only rejected Jesus as their King and Messiah when they wanted Him crucified, but they rejected Him as their King before that time (many times). And even though at some point God warns Israel about wanting an earthly king, God knew this was going to happen; and so, here He gives Israel instructions of what kind of king they should have, and how to go about doing that. Notice that verse 14 says, "When... you say, 'I will set a king over me...'" This w .
What do these scriptures mean for us today? One could look at these verses to know what good leadership should look like. But our faith and hope and trust should not be in our politicians because they are not perfect. No one is perfect, except for God. So the answer for us is to put Jesus on the throne of our own lives, and make Him our personal King, Lord and Savior!
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